Álvaro García Linera discusses the current deadlock in the struggle for hegemony, the failures and horizons of progressive politics in Latin America, and the growth and limitations of the right.
By Álvaro García,
Linera,Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Crisis and Critique
Abstract: The present work is an attempt to locate the relevance of the
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It takes as a premise the thesis that the
previous century was announced by this event, which indeed brought the
idea of Communism from the marginal debates into the center of political
action. It then goes on to debate revolutions as a plebeian moment, all the
way to the possibility and the nature of socialism today, by taking a detour
through the meaning of the Bolshevik Revolution. The paper concludes
with affirming the necessity of revolutions, as something which dignifies
the human beings.
Extracts of vive-president Garcia Linera's address at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (May, 27, 2016).
September 9, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Open Democracy — We are facing a historical turning point in Latin America. Some are talking about a throwback, about restorers moving forward. The truth is that in the last twelve months, after ten years of intense progress, of territorial diffusion of the progressive and revolutionary governments in the continent, this progress has stalled, in some cases it has given ground, and in some other cases its continuity is in doubt. Wherever conservative forces have succeeded, an accelerated process of reconstitution of the old elites of the 80s and 90s, which seek to take control of the management of the state, is under way.
